Tyler, TX Salaries

Highest published occupation medians in Tyler, TX - BLS OEWS May 2025

Observed metro pay change

What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025

May 2024 → May 2025
  • BLS's published All Occupations median in Tyler, TX moved from $41,230 in May 2024 to $42,650 in May 2025 (+3.4%).
  • Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
  • Tyler, TX sits +0.3 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.

Home Health and Personal Care Aides shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Tyler, TX

Home Health and Personal Care Aides publishes $23,980 here versus $35,800 nationally (-33.0%; 5,450metro-area jobs). Next is Retail Salespersons at $28,050 locally versus $35,410 nationally (-20.8%).

  1. Home Health and Personal Care Aides$23,980 in Tyler, TX sits 33.0% below the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (5,450 published local jobs).
  2. Retail Salespersons$28,050 in Tyler, TX sits 20.8% below the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (3,650 published local jobs).
  3. General and Operations Managers$84,150 in Tyler, TX sits 20.4% below the national General and Operations Managers median of $105,770 (3,300 published local jobs).
  4. Registered Nurses$80,340 in Tyler, TX sits 17.6% below the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (4,430 published local jobs).

Home Health and Personal Care Aides and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Tyler, TX; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 46340 · Tyler, TX $54K mean

MEAN-LOW · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL

  • MEAN-LOW #392/528
  • RPP-LOW 92.2
  • OCC-MID 339 occs
  • TOP-LEAD Chief Executives · $238K
  • EMP-MIX Sales Managers
  • TREND-INLINE +0.3 pp
  • PHOTO-FINISH Southeast-Centra…
  • BOOK-FULL 335 rows · May 2025

Read with Southeast-Central Idaho nonmetropolitan area ($29 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers

Instrument codes from this MSA’s OEWS published-row mean, BEA RPP, occupation book, employment lead, All Occupations pay change, and nearest peer — not a moving recommendation.

Published-row mean neighbourhood around Tyler, TX

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KTyler, TX · this MSA: $54KTyler, TX · this MSA$54KSoutheast-Central Id… · near: $54KSoutheast-Central Id… · near$54KMuskegon-Norton Shor… · near: $54KMuskegon-Norton Shor… · near$54KWheeling, WV-OH · near: $54KWheeling, WV-OH · near$54KLake Havasu City-Kin… · near: $54KLake Havasu City-Kin… · near$54KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
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Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Tyler, TX · this MSA $54K
Southeast-Central Id… · near $54K
Muskegon-Norton Shor… · near $54K
Wheeling, WV-OH · near $54K
Lake Havasu City-Kin… · near $54K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

Employment scale inside Tyler, TX's top-pay list

Sales Managers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Tyler, TX's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

  1. 1. Sales Managers 410 jobs · $127,030
  2. 2. Financial Managers 340 jobs · $136,520
  3. 3. Software Developers 320 jobs · $123,760
  4. 4. Lawyers 310 jobs · $130,390
  5. 5. Nurse Practitioners 300 jobs · $132,490
  6. 6. Pharmacists 280 jobs · $136,790
  7. 7. Managers, All Other 260 jobs · $122,440
  8. 8. Physical Therapists 250 jobs · $108,380
  9. 9. Computer and Information Systems Managers 230 jobs · $150,510
  10. 10. Physicians, All Other 220 jobs · $182,690
  11. 11. Marketing Managers 160 jobs · $130,200
  12. 12. Mechanical Engineers 160 jobs · $106,240
  13. 13. Physician Assistants 130 jobs · $133,460
  14. 14. Industrial Production Managers 110 jobs · $118,530
  15. 15. Dentists, General 100 jobs · $125,990
  16. 16. Human Resources Managers 100 jobs · $113,260
  17. 17. Architectural and Engineering Managers 80 jobs · $168,720
  18. 18. Veterinarians 70 jobs · $120,850

Occupations Tracked

339

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$53,697

employment-weighted, 335 complete rows

Top Salary

$237,880

Chief Executives

Cost of Living

92.2

8% below US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $53,697 by the metro RPP gives $58,268 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Highest Paying Jobs in Tyler, TX

# Occupation Median Salary
1 Chief Executives $237,880
2 Physicians, All Other $182,690
3 Architectural and Engineering Managers $168,720
4 Computer and Information Systems Managers $150,510
5 Pharmacists $136,790
6 Financial Managers $136,520
7 Physician Assistants $133,460
8 Petroleum Engineers $132,530
9 Nurse Practitioners $132,490
10 Lawyers $130,390
11 Marketing Managers $130,200
12 Optometrists $127,300
13 Sales Managers $127,030
14 Dentists, General $125,990
15 Software Developers $123,760
16 Managers, All Other $122,440
17 Purchasing Managers $121,180
18 Veterinarians $120,850
19 Industrial Production Managers $118,530
20 First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives $117,260
21 Electrical Engineers $113,930
22 Human Resources Managers $113,260
23 Data Scientists $108,780
24 Physical Therapists $108,380
25 Mechanical Engineers $106,240

Lowest Paying Jobs in Tyler, TX

Other BLS Wage Areas in TX

Other metropolitan or nonmetropolitan OEWS areas assigned to the same state. Cross-state pay and employment peers live in Nationwide similar metros below.

Nationwide metros with similar published-row mean pay or employment scale

Two OEWS peer sets outside TX. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($53,697 here) and summed published employment.

Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on BLS OEWS employment-weighted published-row mean wage and summed occupation employment. Employment peers exclude metros already listed in the mean-wage column so the two link sets stay distinct. Mean wage here is not a worker-level median.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the average salary in Tyler, TX?
Across the 335 occupation rows for Tyler, TX with both a published mean wage and employment estimate, weighting each mean by employment gives $53,697/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). The page has 339 occupations with a published median, a different denominator. This WageDex-derived benchmark is not a BLS-published All Occupations metro mean or median and does not state what a typical local worker earns. For contrast, averaging the medians of only the 25 highest-paying occupations gives $133,084, which describes the displayed top tier only.
Which published medians lead Tyler, TX?
Chief Executives holds the highest published median in Tyler, TX at $237,880/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). Next is Physicians, All Other at $182,690/year. These are occupation medians for this metropolitan statistical area, not employer offers.
What is the cost of living in Tyler, TX?
Tyler, TX has a Regional Price Parity of 92.2, meaning prices are 8% below the national average. Dividing the derived published-row mean of $53,697 by the RPP gives a national-price-equivalent benchmark of $58,268.
Where does BLS salary data for Tyler, TX come from?
All salary figures are Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. OEWS surveys approximately 1.1 million business establishments. Medians and means on this page are the published occupation-level estimates for the area — not job-board scrapes or modeled employer offers.

Last updated: May 2025 (BLS OEWS annual release). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025. Cost-of-living index: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024.

Source data and WageDex calculations are identified in context on this page. Occupation rows use BLS OEWS May 2025. The metro benchmark is WageDex's employment-weighted mean of published occupation means; where BEA RPP is available, the price-level figure divides that benchmark by the published area parity. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.

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